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The Trump/Musk administration’s approach to cutting costs makes good political sense in the short-run. But from a longer-run governing perspective, it is a recipe for disaster.
Forced to choose between the values upheld by the National Endowment for Democracy and fealty to Donald Trump, Republicans have opted for the latter.
Musk and Trump are inflicting catastrophic damage on biomedical research.
Jeff Bezos is inspired by a vision that does not involve living on Mars—or on any planet besides Earth—but inhabiting artificial worlds in free space.
The privatisation of space travel is cutting the cost of rocket launches and powering innovation.
Twitter’s current policy on content isn’t one dimensional: It serves up both false positives and false negatives—wrongly banning certain accounts for thoughtcrimes while permitting others to continue on the platform despite engaging in grotesquely abusive behavior.
With the very real possibility that such technology will be able to make changes to itself, even a slight diversion from goals that match our own could be disastrous.